Sunshower Tour w/ Regina Spektor (Day 6)

Washington, D.C. @ D.A.R. Constitution Hall
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We drove through the night straight to our friend's house in D.C. He had already left for work by the time we rolled in so we ate all his chips and found some beds...we only got about 3 hours sleep before we had to wake up and head to the venue so thanks for the "nap stations" Rich!!!

We loaded in to D.A.R. Constitution Hall at a record time...3 minutes. (Gotta love that crew) Super tired, but super excited we played a really fun show to a crowd that plugged us back in. We met a lot of these people after the show and they gave us all cavaties...so damn sweet! Congrats to Ben Foster for winning our ticket give-away and we're sorry Chris McKinney got held up with parking :( at least you caught a little bit of the set!



After the set Regina put on a GREAT show...if you haven't heard her voice live yet, do it. Incredible.

K's Mom and Dad came to the show from Norflok and got to hang with us all backstage....look at these cute Ishibashis..awwww

w/ Regina

Pat's friends, Ryan and Alison Medland made the trip too...Alison's middle name is "Yard." For real. It's "Yard."

They snuck into Regina's BAND dressing room...ate all their snacks. (what's up CHO! whatd'ya gonna do about it???)

Zac was drinking with Tamira, Drew, and Adrienne in the van all night so we have no pics, but for the record, they're all very attractive people. We swear. After the show we said good bye to Rich and his lovely lady Caroline then drove through the night back to NYC.

Pat got an iPhone and ever since he won't even SLEEP without it...he loves that thing...i'm starting to get jealous...



He uses it s much that it needs to be charged every few hours....here it is on stage during soundcheck.

(We're getting concerned)

Zac can't relax if he knows I'm driving so he shuts himself out of reality for some sleep....

He's probably smart....cuz while everyone's asleep...I'm driving down the highway...

...it's late...

...and I'm taking pictures???

(I was bored)

In any case, I got us home in one piece...and we all went to sleep around 5am....but not to worry...We got the day off!

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Sunshower Tour w/ Regina Spektor (Day 5)

Columbus, OH @ Skully's
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We woke up in Heidi's house, started running around in our underwear, jumping on all the beds, and then we took showers. She asked us to let the dogs out which was kinda fun cuz one of them is blind and pretty much deaf. Cute little grandpa of a dog. You have to pick him up and carry him outside...i watched him walk across the grass and into the BLAZE's wheel a couple times until he finally just pooped on the driveway...awwwwwww.

We hung around Heidi's house eating cookies and stuff 'till her dogwalker came inside. He was a bit confused by the rock band in her kitchen but handled it pretty well.....eventually we left paradise for Thunderpusy Records. Me, Pat, and Zac just looked at all the new records we wished we had money to buy....(single tear). K just looked at tall the records he has money to buy....but won't.

Skully's has our favorite Happy Hour specials so we got there early ...

Our friend Lindsey just got off work and hung at the bar with us for awhile. She talked about her new bf and then got mad at me for judging girls who eat McDonalds. (sorry Lindsey!) The Lost Revival started the night and sounded great...Heidi rollled up in her fancy car and brightened the room....we got to catch up with Queens of Columbus Raina and Amber (who's famous for providing me with the White Russians that led to my Treehouse Debauchery)....we played our set and then had a good time with Andy Shaw's set. Thanks for playing with us guys!

Again, we forgot to take pics so we stole Jackie's....









Here's some video clips...more songs can be found at --> http://www.youtube.com/user/fictionjax


We won't be back this way for awhile, so we said bye to Libby...

....and then loaded up the van. Gotta be in D.C. early as hell so we drove through the night...byyyye Columbus and thanks for the hospitality Heidi!

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Sunshower Tour w/ Regina Spektor (Day 4)

Cincinnati, OH @ Norhtside Tavern
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We drove from WV to OH and got excited to hit up Sidewinder.....one of our favorite coffee shops.....always cool people to meet hanging out in there.

We loaded our stuff in and hung out with the bar tender Eileen and the sound guy, forgot his name but super nice dude. We played with the local band The Sweep and had a great time with some old friends (Melonie, Libby, Jackie, and a really cool guy who I also can't remember). I see a pattern developing....anyone else?





We totally screwed up on photos for this one, but here's a bit of video our friend took...




After the show we all took a long drive to Columbus, OH to stay with our friend Heidi. We pulled up to her mansion around 4am i think? We knocked on the door expecting her to be in some sort of pajamas-thingy, but she was wide awake, all dressed up, and had super fancy snacks and beers waiting on the table. (WHAT??) it was so crazy! She even baked these amazing brownies with cookies in the middle...we hung out eating and drinking until we passed out around 6am....i think she was heading out the door and going to work....

thanks Heidi!

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Sunshower Tour w/ Regina Spektor (Day 3)

Charleston, WV @ the Empty Glass
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After a night of such emotional import for each member of the band we needed a day off to relax before continuing the tour....each of us spent that time differently:

PAT- Pat got off a subway train hungry and hungover. He realized he lost his bank card and walked from 63rd and Lexington to 9th and 2nd ave. Went to VESELKA for some Beef Stroganov, Pea Soup, Fresh Lemonade, and a chocolate chip cookie. (he also brought back an M&M chocolate chip cookie for a certain drummer cuz he knows that place makes his favorite ones)
*except the clerk gave him one with nuts.
**i hate nuts in my cookies.
***but i still love Pat.

ZAC- Went to the park with his lady and said goodbye to the geese before they migrated south. The geese were funny.

DAVE- Went "hiking" with his cousin Erica in Jersey City's Van Vorst Park.

K- Spent the day trying to teach his 3 year old daughter, Sola, how to say "I'm not that kind of girl." (she can only do it in Japanese so far)

The next morning, Pat, K, and Zac picked me up at my grandparents house in Scotch Plains, NJ. (That was when my grandmother asked me "What did you do on MyFace?" Nana had heard that I put a picture of her on my facebook page. When I explained the difference between MySpace and Facebook, she was still confused and asked, "So it's NOT called Spacebook?")

With that, we all headed for Charleston, WV in the Blaze. Regina's next show is at Constitution Hall in D.C. so we picked up a few shows to play in the meantime.

It's always great getting away from the concrete jungle...

(But we miss it after 6 hours)

Back on tour means back to the FEST-O! (see earlier BLOGs for reference)


We got to The Empty Glass around 9pm and loaded up the gear...Always great to see our dear friends Roadblock, Jackson and LIbby. Somehow we managed to walk away with no pics :( But we DID get to spend time with some new friends Tania and John. We met them at The Sound Factory last tour and they just got engaged...Congratulations!

We crashed in their apartment and left for Tudor's first thing in the morning....BISCUITS!

(3 Mountaineers and 1 Golden Eagle please)

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Sunshower Tour w/ Regina Spektor (Day 2)

CD Release Show IN NYC!
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We spent the night at my cousin Erica's house in Philly and kidnapped her from work the next morning. We threw her in the van and took her back to NYC with us...(along with her 2 jackets, 3 blouses, high heels, leather boots, and hair dryer) COMEon! It's one night!

Anyway, we got to Music Hall of Williamsburg for load-in and met the crew. Our first time playing here since it was North 6. Bowery Presents bought it and turned it into a Bowery Ballroom type joint, but it's in Williamsburg so it has a more expensive haircut. The crew was really great and the venue sounds fucking amazing. We all went to eat some Thai food and then just hung around the dressing room getting showers and locking ourselves outside the bathroom a bunch of times.

Erica wanted to play some guitar on the Dear Prudence cover we were doing, so she asked K for some help...

I had to explain to her for the 37th time, K doesn't know HOW to play the guitar!!

We were all smiles watching Nite Club groove their asses off followed by Demander melting our faces (and hearts cuz they're so cute). The Subjects came on next and sounded expensive. You should all go hear these bands cuz they live in Brooklyn and will make your life better for at least 45 minutes.

When we played our set we had the most fun in a loooong time (partly cuz I was dressed like a maniacal Richard Simmons and partly cuz Pat was wearing new purple briefs) but MOSTLY cuz everyone there were friends that we love to death. Thanks for making the show so much fun!




If anyone has pics from the Beatles sing-a-long at the end, please send them to us at JupiterOneMusic@gmail.com

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Sunshower Tour w/ Regina Spektor (Day 1)

Sept. 24th - WRXP and Philadelphia, PA
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Today was the first show of the tour and our first time meeting Regina. We were excited about that but ALSO excited about being on one of our favorite radio staions WRXP. We all met up at the 101.9 studio for a live performance of "Flaming Arrow." It was 9am and Zac's alarm "mysteriously" shut off THREE times so we were all pretty tired. It was so crazy hanging out with Matt Pinfield cuz I remember being a kid and staying up late watching MTV. I'd always see him on "Headbanger's Ball" and "120 Minutes" and think he must be the coolest guy ever. Zac and K did an acoustic performance...

...while Pat and I threw spit balls at the back of their heads.

Matt and Leslie were really nice and we're happy Matt keeps us in his iPod's "At-The-Gym" playlist.


You can watch the performance on WRXP HERE

As we walked out we saw some signatures of friends on their poster-thingy;



After some coffee we jumped in the blaze and headed straight to The Electric Factory for load-in. We were excited to play for 2,500 people but were quickly brought back to reality when the guy in the lot made us pay 10 bucks for parking. (huh??) Don't they know who we are?!

Then we pulled up next to Regina's Tour bus....

right. Guess we forgot for a second :)

We thew all our gear in the club and then got to meet everyone...Veikko (the super tall German Tour Manager), Dan Cho (the sweeter than honey Cellist), McKenzie Smith (sweet-cheecks drummer and member of the amazing band MIDLAKE), Regina (duh. you know her), and Jack Dishel (sole proprietor of the sparkling ONLY SUN). While setting up we got to meet the sound crew including Keith Nelson (the ever-polite gentlemanly monitor man) and Greig Duffin (the I'm-a-nice-guy-and-not-REALLY-sarcastic-but-sometimes-have-to-be-when-Keith's-around Front of House Production Man).

We decided to walk a few blocks for some coffee....which quickly became a gopher's errand when Regina's band put in their "order."

We tried to cheer ourselves up when we noticed a sweet mother telling her son how GREAT Zac and Pat were...

...but then we saw THESE guys laughing and pointing as they made condescending remarks like, "Look at this fool with all that coffee!" etc...

As bad as this all seemed we were finally vindicated when we got back to the dressing rooms and reminded of the alcohol situation....Regina's Band has a "dry" dressing room.... Jupiter One, does not.
You enjoying those coffees boys??

When we got on stage we were blown away by the crowd and excited knowing we had Cousins Dennis and Erica, and our dear friends Nora, John Crooker, Jughead, and Eileen out there. After our set we hung out at the merch table with our newest friend Morgan Bentsen (the avid reader of Spice origin and Merchandise Guru). We watched Regina's set and can honestly say she is the best singer we've ever heard. no joke. This girl can sing you to shipwreck.

Backstage after the show we had the pleasure of seeing Paul Rudd and Reese Witherspoon back there...Pat got to tell Paul about how he was an assistant engineer on Anchorman long before he even knew what that movie was gonna become. Pat had to catalogue each track of the line "It smells like Big Foot's Dick" and he pissed himself everytime. Which says a lot because that line was played at least 27 times. Zac noticed Reese staring at him quite a bit and then she finally said, "You look familiar." To which he responded, "so do you."

(except not really. but i wish he had)

He just told her, "yeah I've got one of those faces" and commenced with the small talk. However, this is a VERY important story. Mainly cuz we had to hear it 7 times that night....

ZAC: So THEN Reese says to me, "You look familiar..."

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